Evangelistic Work by Dewayne, Rita and Antonio Shappley in the Spanish-speaking World

From our computers to the Spanish-speaking world. Did you know that Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world? There are 329,000,000 native Spanish speakers, a million more than those whose native language is English. In first place is Chinese, with 1.2 billion native speakers.

Report for March 13, 2017. Data on Internet sites. 1,841,868 visits in 2016. Tract printed renewed. 203,000 copies of ten tracts in Spanish and four in English. Twelve pages of data and photographs.

Report. PowerPoint. 34 slides. Presented in November and December, 2016 to supporting congregations.

Report for January 1 through August 12, 2016. Extensive data on Internet sites maintained by Dewayne and Antonio Shappley. Scores of e-mails testify to the usefulness and effectiveness of thousands of materials of all kinds on the sites.

This full color report is in the pdf format. It is a large file, so please allow time for the first slide to appear. The slides can be projected, using a video projector. The “Celebration of our Fifty Years in Puerto Rico by Brethren on the Island” was a tremendous event in our lives. We are happy to share it with you through pictures and concise texts. Of course, no amount of pictures and words could capture the profound and powerful emotions of such an experience.

Data from June 24, 2012 to the present provided by Google Analytics. Note: This service does not show statistics for "Hits" or "Gigabytes downloaded." Data previous to the date noted was provided by www.web.com. With the exception of subject matter indicated above, and this Page, all materials are in Spanish. Visitors to the site are from all over the Spanish-speaking world, and other countries where Spanish-speaking people have gone to live.

Some records set thus far

-Year of most visits: 2016, with a total of 1,841,868.
Daily average for 2016: 5,173

-Month of the most visits: September, 2016.

-Total visits for the month: 174,610 (31 days).

-Daily average: 5,820.

-Record number of Visits for one day: 8,291, on January 20, 2017.

-Record number of Pages opened in one month: 319,189, for October, 2010.

Grand Totals

Grand Totals from January 1,
2003 through August 31, 2017
for www.editoriallapaz.org, www.iglesia-de-cristo.com, www.apocalipsis.co, Vimeo and YouTube

Production of literature, cassettes, CD's, and other materials through March 31, 2016.

A part of the printing equipment, materiales and facilities used for about forty years to produce tracts, books, manuals, Bible courses, cassettes, etc., for the use of churches of Christ in the Spanish-speaking world.Left: Ryobi, two-color, offset press.Right: Stacks of paper printed, ready to be cut. Two tracts are printed on each
sheet.
After cutting to size, the tracts are then folded. As of Dec. 31, 2012, we had
printed 23,680,758 tracts.

A. Internet documents opened by visitors from January 1, 2003 through March 31, 2016..................... 28,284,411

We do
not print these tracts in English versions. They were translated so that
supporting churches and individuals might have an idea of the content of some of
the most important works we print. Later improvements to the original versions
in Spanish are not reflected in these translations.

These
versions may take a little more time to load due to the formats used.

Dewayne Shappley is the author of these materials.

“On this rock I will build my church.” We invite you to learn about the church Christ built.

“On this rock I will build my church.” We invite you to learn about the church Christ built. The oldest. The original. The one which received apostolic instruction, and is under the “new covenant” of Christ. Are you concerned, confused or discouraged because of so many churches different in doctrine and practice? The fault is not that of Christ! He built only one church and gave it only one gospel. Do you agree? Do you know that church exist today? Impossible? By no means! The complete, divine model is in the Bible. Following it carefully, competent spiritual architects can reproduce it in any time or place of the Christian Age. A biblical name. An infallible creed. How we worship the “only true and living God.” How we pray to God. We sing, without playing musical instruments. How we finance our works. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper every Sunday. How we are organized. How to be added to the church of Jesus Christ.

-Catastrophism
-End of the World, Rapture, Wrath of God, Final Judgment. Four examples published by National
Geographiconline, on the occasion of Harold Camping's prediction about May
21, 2011. Subtle Insinuations that all Christians are more or less like
Camping and his followers. The huge injustice of lumping all Christians into one
category and judging them by the most scatter brained, infantile and
hypocritical. "Our commentary" follows each of the examples. "Hale-Boppalypse" -Tragedy in Los Angeles associated with the
appearance of the Hale-Bogg comet in 1997. "Man-made Black Hole" -Some
scientists feared The Large Hadron Collider might produce one that would consume
the Earth. "1666: Judgment by Fire" -The
Great London Fire. The number 666 and
the wrath of God. "Planetary Alignments: Doomsday Omens" -The conjunction
of various planets, the sun and the moon in the year 2000. Predictions of
disastrous effects on the Earth. May 31, 2011.

As of May 2, 2016, by the grace of God and with the support of generous congregations, plus that of a few individuals, we completed fifty years of evangelistic work directed toward the Spanish-speaking people of the world. Living in Puerto Rico, and starting there, as we began to produce materials for local use, brethren in other countries learned of them, requesting quantities. Eventually, so many requests were being received and so many fruits reported that we decided to devote the major part of our time to producing materials. Beginning in 2010, our chief focus has been evangelizing an edifying through Internet sites. During these fifty years, we have continually prepared reports for supporting churches and individuals. These fill five, two inch, three-ring binders, and we have started on the sixth.

From May 7, 2008 on, reports have been made available on this Internet site.

Puerto Rico Christians Celebrate Fifty Years of Work by the Shappley’s on the Island

To see a forty-slide report on the Celebration, left click the following link.

This full color report is in the pdf format. It is a large file, so please allow time for the first slide to appear.

The slides can be projected, using a video projector.

The “Celebration of our Fifty Years in Puerto Rico by Brethren on the Island” was a tremendous event in our lives. We are happy to share it with you through pictures and concise texts. Of course, no amount of pictures and words could capture the profound and powerful emotions of such an experience.

Report for March 13, 2017. Data on Internet sites. 1,841,868 visits in 2016. Tract printed renewed. 203,000 copies of ten tracts in Spanish and four in English.

Report for January 1 through August 12, 2016. Extensive data on Internet sites maintained by Dewayne and Antonio Shappley. Scores of e-mails testify to the usefulness and effectiveness of thousands of materials of all kinds on the sites.

This full color report is in the pdf format. It is a large file, so please allow time for the first slide to appear. The slides can be projected, using a video projector. The “Celebration of our Fifty Years in Puerto Rico by Brethren on the Island” was a tremendous event in our lives. We are happy to share it with you through pictures and concise texts. Of course, no amount of pictures and words could capture the profound and powerful emotions of such an experience.

Elders and Deacons appointed in the Gurabo, Puerto Rico Church of Christ